Old Civil War Pictures
39 haunting photos of the civil war.
Old civil war pictures. The american civil war in pictures part 1 1861 1865 this september 1862 photo provided by the library of congress shows allan pinkerton on horseback during the battle of antietam near sharpsburg maryland. The civil war was the first conflict to be substantially photographed with millions of soldier portraits and some 10000 documentary images. Civil war photographs stripped away much of the victorian era romance around warfare. Union soldiers from company d us.
Excludes images taken during executions the aftermath of battles burials and exhumations. Original photographs from the civil war. More civil war pictures see the related resources page. Original civil war photographs.
Photographers had to carry all of their heavy equipment including their darkroom by wagon. Many photographs of the civil war held by the national archives are not listed in this leaflet. At the end of this leaflet there are instructions for ordering photographs. The american civil war between union soldiers upholding the united states constitution and confederate soldiers who.
Overall one in 13 civil war soldiers became amputees. These are some old civil war reenactment pictures that i put together. Photos edited by mike lynaugh thank you to the library of congress for permission to reproduce these images. He was just 19 years old.
Since then countless photographers have recorded tens of millions more on not only civil war battlefields but also on those of the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. Civil war drawings in drawings documentary more than 1600 sketches by the special artists who drew for the nations illustrated newspapers. Engineer battalion pose during the siege in august 1864 in petersburg virginia. Photography during the civil war especially for those who ventured out to the battlefields with their cameras was a difficult and time consuming process.
Sorry yall i couldnt figure out how to put music with it so just enjoy the pictures. Civil war photographer alexander gardner who worked for mathew brady photographed the antietam battlefield capturing gory graphic details of the civil war two days after the historic conflict. Rare post mortem photographs taken during the civil war.